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** FILE ** In this April 27, 2010 file photo, Israeli soldiers stand near a burnt field at the Migron unauthorized settlement outpost in the West Bank after it was demolished by Israeli troops. Israel's Supreme Court on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011 has ordered the state to dismantle Migron, the largest of the more than 100 unauthorized West Bank settlement outposts. (AP Photo/Alessio Romenzi, File)
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Associated Press Caitlin Leavey wears a special necklace in honor of her father, a New York City firefighter who died in a rescue mission in response to the World Trade Center attacks.
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"It is clear that Tehran seeks a weak Iraq and an Iraq more dependent upon and more beholden to a Persian worldview," Adm. Mike Mullen said. (Associated Press)
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Gen. Necdet Ozel is the newly appointed land forces commander and acting military chief of staff. (Associated Press)
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Afghan police officers carry the body of a hotel guard in a black cloth after a suicide attack in Kunduz, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 2, 2011. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Paramilitary troops move on hilltop to take positions on July 9, 2011, after security forces took control of a troubled area of Karachi, Pakistan. (Associated Press)
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Thousands of mourners in Benghazi, Libya, marched in the funeral procession Friday for the Libyan rebels' slain military chief, Abdel-Fattah Younis, a day after he was gunned down under still mysterious circumstances. An investigation has begun. (Associated Press)
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A former golf course is now a refugee camp for people displaced by an earthquake 18 months ago. More than 600,000 people still live in settlement camps. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, workers pump oil from the site of a bomb blast that struck a major oil pipeline in the western town of Talkalakh, Syria, Friday, July 29, 2011. Syrian state television described the blast as a "terrorist" attack, saying that a group of "saboteurs" was behind the explosion. (AP Photo/SANA)
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Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says Sunday during a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, that the top U.S. commander in the war-weary country has been ordered to submit a plan by mid-October for the initial withdrawal of American troops. (Associated Press)
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Libyan special emergency police officers and local militia guard the hangar where the fighting between rebel forces and suspected pro-Gadhafi fighters took place on the outskirts of rebel-held Benghazi, Libya, Sunday, July 31, 2011. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
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**FILE** Libyan men carry the coffin, gesture and chant slogans July 29, 2011, during the funeral of Libyan rebels' slain military chief Abdel-Fattah Younis in the rebel-held town of Benghazi, Libya. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** In this photo from July 10, 2009, Muslim worshipers come out of a mosque after noon prayers in Kashgar, China. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Taliban fighters hold their weapons on July 31, 2011, in Jalalabad, east of Kabul Afghanistan. (Associated Press)
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A fire breaks out July 31, 2011, after a suicide bomber blew himself up at the gate of the police headquarters in Lashkar Gah, in the Helmand province of southern Afghanistan. (Associated Press)
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Libyans mourn, gesture and chant slogans during the funeral of Libyan rebels' slain military chief Abdel-Fattah Younis in the rebel-held town of Benghazi, Libya, Friday, July 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)
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An Iraqi man inspects a destroyed liquor store after a bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, July 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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Transportation Security Administration chief John S. Pistole on Thursday welcomed the unionization of his agency's 47,000 airport screeners. The move has proved controversial, with critics arguing that, as a security agency, TSA should not allow collective bargaining. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS African Union troops defend the Yaaqshid district of Mogadishu, Somalia, on Thursday. Spokesman Col. Paddy Ankunda said the AU force believes al-Shabab is trying to prevent aid from reaching tens of thousands of refugees.
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Adam Ibrahim from Somalia is comforted by his father, Abdulle Ibrahim, after treatment at the International Rescue Committee in Kenya on Thursday. Al-Shabab militants have killed men who tried to escape famine with their families.
